“Representatives of a score of nationalities jostle each other in the narrow streets”
Photograph vibrant street of Salonika most likely in the Jewish Quarter_1900
This photograph is part of the article“A New Jerusalem” published in the magazine “The Catholic World” - a monthly periodical of general literature and science. Lucy Garnet who is the author of the article, describes a seductive image of a multicultural and vibrant city.
She writes:
This [Egnatia avenue] and the other main streets of Salonika, especially in the lower part of the city, present a scene of great animation, in which East and West are curiously mingled. Primitive carts from the neighboring villages, with solid wooden wheels, drawn by yokes of long-horned buffaloes and driven by wild-looking, long-haired Bulgarians in baggy breeches of brown home spun and towel bound head, are with difficulty steered clear of the tramcars which convey passengers from the western end of the city to its eastern suburb. Files of long suffering donkeys laden with building materials—tiles in panniers and heavy beams dragging behind—are hurried along by merciless Jews, who, not content with belaboring their sorry hides, goad the poor beasts most cruelly, while they harrow the ears of the passers-by with their excruciating cry of Ar r-r-r. Greek peasants in blue breeches and long-tasselled red fez, bringing in the produce of their vineyards and gardens in enormous baskets slung over the backs of mules and ponies, make way for the pasha and his suite on horseback, or the carriage of some foreign resident. Swaggering Albanians in voluminous white kilts, gorgeously embroidered jackets, and girdles bristling with pistols and yataghans; zaptiehs in green and red uniforms; itinerant venders of every kind of edible, and representatives of a score of nationalities, jostle each other in the narrow streets of the bazaars; the copper-smiths carry on their deafening trade in the little open shops of their quarter, and in the roadway in front of their shops the barbers calmly operate on the chins and heads of their customers, who, seated on rush-bottomed chairs, meditatively sip cups of coffee and smoke nargilehs while awaiting their turn at the hands of the barber.”
Lucy Garnet
Garnett, Lucy. “A NEW JERUSALEM.” The Catholic World, A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science (1865-1906) 69, no. 425
(1900): 612.
The Catholic World
August 1900
(raster) illustration/ photograph
English
Distribution of Greek Christian and Muslim population in the quarters of Salonika in 1478
Dimitris Venizelos
Lowry, Heath W. “Portrait of a City: The Population and Topography of Ottoman Selanik (Thessaloniki) in the Year 1478.” Hetaireia Vyzantinōn kai Metavyzantinōn Meletōn; Diptycha-, 1979.
1478
fin-de-siecle Salonica.
This short video is a collection of images of Salonika before the big fire.
created by the Facebook group 'Old Photos of Thessaloniki' (www.facebook.com/groups/oldthessaloniki) and Bernard Maurice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9kPFagUcoA
Published on Jun 25, 2014
A film by the Facebook group 'Old Photos of Thessaloniki' (www.facebook.com/groups/oldthessaloniki) and Bernard Maurice. Find out more about Joseph Pigassou here: http://joseph-pigassou.blog4ever.com/ Music by the Cinematic Orchestra from their album 'The Crimson Wing'.
This video should only be used for non-commercial purposes. The photos are strictly copyright and cannot be used without permission.
Category: Education
License: Standard YouTube License
Juxtaposition of proposed plan for Thessaloniki and exisiting (1917) fabric of the medieval city.
Gerolympou - Karadimou, Aleka. The Emergence of Contemporary Thessaloniki - Η Ανάδυση Της Σύγχρονης Θεσσαλονίκης, University Studio Press, 2013
Minarets
Minarets of Salonika
Papazoglou, Aris. Οι μιναρέδες της Θεσσαλονίκης (The minarets of Thessaloniki). Thessaloniki: Kornilia Sfakianaki, 2010
Parishes
The multinuclear urban organization model in the 15th century Salonika (structure of the Byzantine city)
Lowry H."Portrait of a City" in "Diptucha", Etaireia Vyzantinōn kai Metavyzantinōn Meletōn. 1979
Etaireia Vyzantinōn kai Metavyzantinōn Meletōn
Quarters
the quarters of Salonika in the end of the 20th century, with the major religious buildings
Dimitris Venizelos
multiple sources:
www.openstreetmap.org
Mazower, Mark. Salonica, City of Ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950. 1st American ed. New York: Alfred AKnopf, 2005.
Rotunda/St. George/Hortaci efendi Djamisi)
in 1831
The Rotunda after its conversion to a mosque.
Serrieu et Fauvel
E. Cousinéry, Voyage dans la Macédoine : contenant des recherches sur l'histoire, la géographie, les antiquités de ce pays. Paris, 1831.
1831
THE POPULATION OF SALONIKA BETWEEN THE YEARS 1478-1623
population consistency of the city of Salonika
Dimitris Venizelos
Lowry, Heath W. “Portrait of a City: The Population and Topography of Ottoman Selanik (Thessaloniki) in the Year 1478.” Hetaireia Vyzantinōn kai Metavyzantinōn Meletōn; Diptucha-, 1979
Diptycha
Verticality
The Minarets of Salonika
panoramic view of the 17th century Salonika, seen from a boat in the Thermaic gulf
Dapper, O. "Neukenrige Beschryving der Eilanden in der Arcipel der Mittelantsch Zee", Amsterdam 1688
in
Papazoglou, Aris. Οι μιναρέδες της Θεσσαλονίκης (The minarets of Thessaloniki). Thessaloniki: Kornilia Sfakianaki, 2010
Kornilia Sfakianaki (Editions)